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The dramatic increase of births in the United States from 1946 to 1964.
What is the Baby Boom?
The first pre-planned housing community in the United States.
What is Levittown?
Developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in 1954, this healthcare invention had a 90% effectiveness rate.
What is the Polio Vaccine?
Harry Truman's domestic policy that focused on raising the minimum wage, increasing aid to agriculture and education, and enacting a national health program.
What is the Fair Deal?
The development of four-lane super roads connecting major American cities across the United States.
What is the interstate highway system?
President whose Executive Order 9981 desegregated the United States military.
Who is Harry Truman?
A range of warm-weather US States from Florida to California.
What is the Sunbelt?
This law established limits on union's power and banned closed-shop employment.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
This ended federal aid to tribes, withdrew federal land protection, and distributed land among individuals.
What is termination policy?
What is the Housing Act of 1949?
Oversaw the largest number of Civil Rights and free speech cases during the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Warren Court?
A mountainous region in the south that is the rural outpost of poverty in America.
What is Appalachia?
Encourage indigenous people to move to cities, providing transportation and initial assistance to find housing and jobs.
What is the Volunteer Relocation Program?
An accepted behavior in the Jim Crow South established by practice and custom.
What is de facto segregation?
Toy made by Mattel corporation that became the standard for women's stereotyping in the United States.
What is Barbie?
Founded in 1942 by students in Chicago and committed to effecting change through nonviolent direct action.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
High school in Arkansas that saw a standoff between state militia and the 101st airborne over nine black seniors enrolled for classes in 1957.
What is the Little Rock Nine confrontation?
Dismantled the legal basis for segregation of schools and other public places?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Southern social structure mandated by law.
What is de jure segregation?
Circular tube that became a 1950s exercise fad.
What is the hulahoop?
This commanding officer of the United Nations forces in Korea who was fired by Harry Truman for exceeding the parameters of his orders.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Location of the NASA space program's launch site.
What is Cape Canaveral, Florida?
The first television show written by, produce, and starring a woman.
What is I Love Lucy?
This industry developed along side of the expansion of the highway system to take advantage of the increasing number of cars owned by Americans.
What are (gas) service stations?
Vice President Nixon's response to being accused of campaign finance fraud.
What is the Checkers Speech?